Patrick Jenkins

🚨 NEW: Top performing secondary schools are effectively shutting out disadvantaged pupils with special educational needs. Our new polling suggests this is often a deliberate strategy to limit the numbers of these pupils coming through their school gates 🧵⤵️

A reminder of just how important Teaching Assistants are when it comes to inclusion …

More SEND training isn’t going to help. We could have all the training in the world and one teacher still wouldn’t be able to do everything that needs to be done to properly teach every student in a mixed class. More time. More teachers. More TAs. More SEND schools. More £.

There is no justification for an academy trust CEO earning £530k while schools face a funding crisis, pupil need is rising, and educators are leaving under unmanageable workloads. £530k is 15–20 adults in schools supporting behaviour, safeguarding, SEND and attendance - instead of one CEO salary. This is about priorities and they are wrong. That’s why we must vote YES to strike action on 28 February. #SaveEducation

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.” — John Waters

🚨NEW REPORT - The Evidence for a 4-Day School Week🚨 Teachers are burnt out and leaving the profession in droves. The status quo isn’t working. It’s time to try something that might. It’s time to trial a 4-day week in schools. Full report below ⬇️

The dramatic events leading up to 1066 have been brought to life in the BBC’s epic “King and Conqueror”. It’s good TV. But what do we know about what *actually* happened back then? Let’s travel back in time almost a thousand years, and find out… 🧵 (1/17)

A successful open evening for humanities at @BristolBrunel!

"Thinking about your next steps? Visit our CLF Post 16 Open Evening – the team would love to meet you! #FutureReady #post16education #post16 #OpenEvening2025

The mantra that every second, every minute, every moment must be spent on ‘meaningful’ learning tasks is bogus. Simple conversations, tangents, interjections, humorous interludes weave things together and create the sort of atmosphere that children love to be in. Could last a few seconds, a few minutes, 5, 10, 15 minutes - it doesn’t matter. Quiz, lecture, powerpoint, quiz with no deviation because it would be wasted time? Not for me.

#FrederickDouglass escaped slavery #OnThisDay in 1838. When the #abolitionist author visited Britain and Ireland in 1845, he was celebrated in poems and songs wherever he went. 🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days buff.ly/LZ4MIEc

If you teach the Norman Conquest your Yr 7’s this free knowledge organiser is really handy and worth downloading. It includes key terms, background info and more. Join free as basic member & print bit.ly/45chCx5

@ingledew_j @Cabotfederation @BristolBrunel Thanks David, hope you're well!

@PatHisPolTeach @Cabotfederation @BristolBrunel Good luck Patrick! Hope the term goes well

Day one of the new job ✅️

Congratulations to all of our students receiving their GCSE and Level 2 results today. We are very proud of you! Full story and photo gallery here: verulamschool.co.uk/News/GCSE-Leve…

Very proud of the first Politics A-level cohort, they smashed it! 100% A*-C!

08:15 AM, Hiroshima. People observe a minute of silence on the Aioi Bridge, which is said to have been the target of the atomic bomb, 80 years ago Today.

The gap between students on free school meals going to university compared to their non- FSM peers increased last year, new analysis shows schoolsweek.co.uk/little-progres…

Open Letter on the new RSHE Guidance: openletter.earth/the-urgent-nee… Pride in Education have written an open letter to the Gov on the need to revise the RSHE guidance, which seeks to prevent schools from teaching about trans people in an inclusive way. Please do sign if you can!